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Posthumous portraits are common as it is often only once someone has died that family or colleagues decide they’d like to celebrate their life.

Both are means of visual communication but with very different aims.

The power of word and picture

Portrait art allows us to express our differences. Through them we find beauty.

Why is it that we love portraits of children and pets - even if they are unknown to us?

In a month when portraits stare out at us from windows around the country as part of the #GreatBigArtExhibition, my latest blog under the 'Art &a...

At a time often described as divisive, the Lots Road Group new portrature show will explore how people living in Britain are connected, using ourselves, and our meeting at one of the oldest independent art colleges in London The Heatherley School of fine art  as the starting point. Waterstones Gower Street's purpose-built art gallery from 26 November to 25 January 2019.

 

The story of a painting of a WWI tank called Deborah from D Division involved in the mass tank attack on Cambrai.